240. If a down-stream vessel collide with an up-stream vessel, and sink (it), the owner of the sunken vessel shall declare before God whatever has been lost in his vessel, and (he) of the down-stream vessel which sank the up-stream vessel shall replace for him his vessel and whatever was lost.
241. If a man has driven the ox (of another) to work, he shall pay one-third of a mana of silver.
242 and 243. If a man has hired for a year, (as) hire of a draught-ox he shall pay to its owner 4 gur of wheat. (As) hire of a carrier(?)-ox, 3 gur of wheat.
244. If a man has hired an ox (or) an ass, and a lion kill it in the field, (the loss) is its owner's.
245. If a man has hired an ox, and cause it to die by negligence or by blows, to the ox's owner he shall make up ox for ox.[243]
246. If a man has hired an ox, and has broken its foot or cut its nape,[244] to the ox's owner he shall make up ox for ox.
247. If a man has hired an ox, and has poked out its eye, he shall pay to the ox's owner half its value in silver.
248. If a man has hired an ox, and has broken its horn, cut off its tail, or pierced[245] its nostril, he shall pay a quarter of its value in silver.
249. If a man has hired an ox, and God has stricken it and it has died, the man who hired the ox shall swear by God,[246] and shall go free.
250. If a mad bull, in its onset, has gored a man, and caused (him) to die, that case has no claim.[247]